Marigold Low Fat Peach with Calcium!

938 days ago

Ahhh…..it is yogurt (or yoghurt as Marigold spells it) time once again! I really can’t get enough of yogurt. Not too sure why, but it is becoming some sort of obsession for me. Every time I go pass a supermarket, I can’t help myself but to go in and check out whether they have any offers for yogurts or whether they are bringing in new brands or new flavours. Damn, looks like the yogurt bug has gotten me. And seriously, I doubt that store bought yogurts are healthier than home made ones. Well, what to do?

Anyway, I bought this from Shop N Save. You can find the Marigold brand of yogurt in almost every supermarket in Singapore. Not that I am saying that the taste of their yogurt is one of the better ones, but to me, they are acceptable for their price. Of course, cannot compare to the other more expensive brands lah. If you are looking for great tasting yogurt, you should try the Dairy Farmers brand of yogurt. They are indeed thick and creamy. For the rest of the common people like me, we have to stick with cheap (not really cheap if you ask me) Marigold ones.

Here we have the Marigold Low Fat Yoghurt Peach with calcium. Does that mean that regular plain old yogurt doesn’t come with any calcium at all? I thought that milk do contain calcium – I mean that is the main reason why lots of people drink milk right? And yogurt is fermented from milk right? I am confused.

Oh, this comes in a 2-pack. Why? I don’t know why. Probably they think that most consumers won’t be able to finish 300g of yogurt in one shot, so they divided in two? That is my guess anyway.

Check out the extremely white yogurt (or is that milk) being poured on the peaches! Wonderful….

Wow, the Healthier Choice logo by the Health Promotion Board. Makes me feel all healthy and fit when I consume the yogurt. But seriously, is it really a healthier choice? What do they compare it to? Oh by the way, there have live & active cultures in this yogurt – one of the most important considerations when consuming yogurt.

Look on the left, they have check boxes!

Hmmm…..low fat, tick. Contains live probiotics cultures like l.bularicus and s.thermophilus, tick. Contains calcium for strong bones development, tick. Comes with real chunky fruits, tick. Well, seriously, those are nothing special. All yogurts comes with those normal yogurt cultures. All yogurts do have calcium, it is not like they add extra calcium or something to this yogurt. And real chunky fruits? Well, nowadays, a lot of yogurts come with real chunky fruits as well.

They don’t have the ingredients listed on the paper wrapping. You will have to take the cup out of the wrapping before you can see what ingredients are in the yogurt. To me, that is actually unacceptable. All ingredients list should be displayed where the consumer can have easy access to.

And so I took out one cup of yogurt from the 2-pack.

The ingredients are milk solids, peach, sucrose, permitted stabilisers, permitted flavourings and live cultures. Good? Maybe as compared to some commerical brands of yogurt, but what are these “permitted stabilisers“?

Ya, made in Singapore. Long live Made in Singapore stuff. But seriously, soon they will all shift to Malaysia or China for production. Singaporeans will be left without jobs.

Okay, there are live probiotic cultures which help to maintain a healthy digestive system. Cool. We all know that but are those probiotics like l.acidophilus and l.casei in this yogurt? No. Just the regular old yogurt cultures, which isn’t that bad but they are not real probiotics per say.

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